First Day of Pre-School!

Olivia's new outfit!

A new hair-do I tried, with crochet flower bows Honey (my mom) made!

Finally we are dressed and ready for school.

Olivia has been very excited to start her 2nd year of Pre-School. She missed her teacher and her friends, but most of all she missed Ethan. Yep, my daughter is already boy crazy, well she is crazy about Ethan at least.

The sad thing is, Ethan graduated to Kindergarten last year. So I was really worried she was going to be heart broken on her first day of school. I tried to prepare her, but she just wouldn't believe me.

On her first day of school she didn't even mention Ethan (whewww), or any other boys. She had so much fun. They had art, and story time and they even got TWO snacks!

She also met two new friends (girls), one had they same shoes as her, the other had a polka dotted back pack like hers but not the same. I couldn't get any names from her, but that will come.

First Day of School!

Bradley has now been in the second grade for a week and a half. He has been so excited to start school, even more excited to gain some independence and walk and ride his bike to school all by himself. I really don't know if I am ready for that one though.

On the first day of school Richard, Olivia and myself took Bradley to school. Bradley's 2nd grade class is lining up with next to all the 5th and 6th graders (don't ask me why, I don't like it). So I was a little worried how that was going to work out.

I really wanted Richard to walk him to the line up area to make sure Bradley knew where he was suppose to be. Then Olivia wanted to go to. By the time Richard got Olivia out, Bradley had already dropped his bookbag off at his line up spot and was off playing with his friends.

I guess he is more independent than I give him credit for. I still am not sure about walking to and from school. However Richard is not as concern, he is letting Bradley ride his bike half home by himself. Scarrrry!!!!

Etsy Envy

I have recently found, fell in love, shopped til I dropped, and now envy a wonderful website called Etsy. This is a website with many types of goods. I love the handmade goods. They have the largest selection of everything you never knew you needed.

After window shopping, and many purchases, I decided I could make a lot of these adorable items myself for cheaper. So here are some of my Etsy inspired (or stolen) projects.

I started making these fabric bows for Ivy's baby. Then I went bigger and bigger for Olivia (these aren't pictured). I have had a lot of fun making these and I have had about six people offer me money to make them for her. I don't know if I am ready to go there yet, but maybe.


Ivy and my mom have been busy cranking out tons of baby bibs, burb rags and blankets. I haven't really sewn anything since I was pregnant with Bradley. I have been toying with the idea so while shopping around on Etsy I saw these cute little dresses. The fun part is that they give you the fabric pre-cut and you sew it. I bought the red dress and made a pattern with it for the blue and brown dresses. My sewing is not that straight, but Olivia loves them, and I am giving the mostly blue one to Brooklyn.

This is my favorite steal. My friend Erin gave me some of her daughter's clothes that didn't fit. This skirt being one of them. I added the ribbons on the bottom. The same skirt on Etsy $35.00. This cost me $5.00 in ribbon, and I had enough ribbon to add it to a plain yellow shirt Olivia already had from Walmart. So cute if I say so myself.

Just another boring Museum

I decided to take the kids to the Fort Douglas Museum this week. My Reserve unit was stationed there for 3 years, but I haven't gone to the Museum. We went inside and checked out all of the displays, including history of how the fort was established, and displays of soldiers life from the Civil War days to Present.

Bradley loved the guns and all the bullets.

Olivia wasn't as impressed. After looking at everything inside the building, we went outside and saw the really cool stuff. They had several artillery pieces including one from Germany that was brought back by US soldiers as a war trophy after WW2.


They had a Self Propelled Howitzer with a very large gun, several tanks including a Sherman from WW2.

They had a Huey Helicopter that had been in service since the Vietnam War where it had crashed twice. It was repaired each time and then went on to serve the Utah Air National Guard before being retired here. Bradley really liked the Cobra Attack Helicopter with the Rocket Pods on the sides.

Daddy Doo's

I have always thought that a couple pony tails were adequate for Olivia's hair, but they don't always stay in for very long and they have to be put back in every morning. Whenever Amanda does her hair, it usually lasts for a couple days and Olivia is always getting compliments on her cute hair. People even ask her "Who did your cute hair?" and she always says "My MOM". Well it is time for me to start taking some credit too. I wasn't too excited at first, it seemed like a lot of hassle trying to get her to hold still while I tried over and over to get it to look right. But Olivia braved it out and let me practice.

The first one had a bunch of braids and took the longest.

The second time I did it a little different.

I won't ever get as fancy as Amanda, but at least I know more than a simple ponytail now.